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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0008517061|title=Tooth and ClawDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the looseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a railway station. He's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of little uncertainty about the garden future of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely - life with his mother living away vet girlfriend, Livia and pursuing a career her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a forensic psychologist, there's only him to take care lot of compromise: does Jake give up his severely disabled father: off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to change Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallyback burner. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1786482126|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from workBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. All she wanted There was a hot bath after a hard day's workno skull. From Was this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the nexta ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmasDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. There It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is the draftee pregnant with his child as a sick mother, result of the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and othersone night they spent together some three months ago. We are shown what these characters were doing that eveningHer condition will be obvious before long, and how these events drag through not least because Ruth is prone to the morning. We are shown how in the midst sudden bouts of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothingsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0008551324|title=Core of EvilThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. It'"There are all kinds of horrible things in s unusual for anyone from the Christmas rose," she said, watching Hardie family to see whether Daisy could still hear herapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. "Helleborin But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and hellebrin are both like digitalis, which I've also used before, but therehe's saporin prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and protoanemonin as wellwho was responsible for her death. It's a very nasty cocktail This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and graphically effluent - endto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a is it? The new town, a new identity Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and, most importantly, a new victim. Daisy has problems with her memory she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - the identities go back so far make certain that sometimes she can barely remember DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is she is now, let alone all the whos shekept well away from what's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she beganhappening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish0008405026|title=Dead of WinterA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan is pictureIt's sixteen years since nine-year-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and snugly in the midst of investigation ground to a pine-peppered winter wonderlandhalt. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in his life Now, her mother, Helena, and on arrival her father are dead in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidtheir bed. A troubledInitially, unhappy child it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of mixed race, passed around various institutions the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and foster homes, Louis figures that if he is her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to put some integrity back into be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the worldexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, he will need to wear a badge to do itUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope0571379877|title=Fear in the CotswoldsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne Edward Jevons is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and looks after their animals and the propertyStanza. This time itRobert's winter and she's spending a month in the Cotswold village of Hampnetttheatre director. It wouldnHe't be a job s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for all of us but Thea delights him. Edward has been in getting love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to know the local people and the areaRobert. In the past sheMost men in Robert's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks as though position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that might have come to an end as the a relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. For the first time Thea feels begun between them but he's not like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the snow which lead to a body two of them kissing in a nearby field. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it alldark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe GoresJo Callaghan|title=Spade and ArcherLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decidesWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, bravelyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, to set up his one-man the AI detective agencyLock. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entailstheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Many localsBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight away, it's evident very high profile case that Sam is draws a man lot of few wordsunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He has Will they be able to solve the mannerisms of a cat - stealthycase in time, quick on his feet. He's also a compulsive chain-smokeror will Kat find herself taken off the case and, but then againpotentially, most people were. In that era, holding out of a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changed.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1035021803|title=Stop MeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, but most of us will have had to deal with themCarole. FortunatelyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, we can hit Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they cameleast. I certainly prefer Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, no matter how bad my luck is supposed she has not felt able to become if I don'tbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. But I wonder how many of us would react if After the split, she worked in a spam E-Mail actually was a matter cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life , who was murdered) and Freya and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1398524085|title=Blood BornHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death Paul and Ollie and faces a battle against time to save herdaughter, Etty. In the panicare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murderis not. Worse still Shortly afterwards, in trying to save Etty and Greg, find the girlbody of Greg's lifefather, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and Duncan Ackerley, in the case falls apartriver. She blames herself It was an easy assumption for the Harbourn brothers being allowed police to walk free make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and only hours later then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed 's little else they can do but get on with their lives and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to lifewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Three Weeks s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to Say Goodbyeask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as t need the help of a hard-working, regular guy (more of that in psychologist only worked for a minute though)while. Nine months previously Finally, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girlit was Robin, AngelinaDelaware's partner, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the adoption agency to say involvement was something that there has been a mistake on the forms and man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby backswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Even worse news is that He was the boy's father heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an influential federal judge. They have, youextremely rich man and it've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughters not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie178763681X|title=Wasp-WaistedKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the elite, dealing with national security, but after an incident Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved into criminal investigationsBelgravia. His first case proves He didn't really want to be something but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of a problem when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Parisgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the body is delivered school to Exposéassist Paul, who had a bigbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murdererproblems - are all his own. Despite the provenance of the picture itThe one thing he hadn's difficult not t expected was for someone to be in awe of the skill and artistry which produced itturn up dead. All Guerin has to go on is Unfortunately, he was the ''very'' expensive underwear which person who discovered the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529421284|title=HustleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in two formsa heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the long con surface and forensic testing proved the short conbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The long con is more elaborate He'd been a known drug user and has more that can go wronghad learning disabilities, takes so it could have been a lot longer to set up simple case of misadventure but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. This is the art of fleecing Geary was a single person townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of a lot of money all Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at oncethe time. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' Lockyer and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game DC Gemma Broad of ''find the ladyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that'', which aims s cold cases to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker you and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle''me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1529425867|title=ConmanLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks to the success In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the BBC TV show ''Hustle''Nigerian descent, the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recallBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I've always liked the seriesRyan Wilkins, as it shows a battle son of wits Ryan and there father of Ryan, is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the endnot. Until Richard AsplinHe's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Conmanreally''his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, Iyou'd re not read anything with quite . The two men are just different sides of the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaverpolicing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529431735|title=The ComplaintsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The ComplaintsIt' s February 1991 and Essex is not the job for you if personal popularity mattersbitingly cold, because theywhich made Bruce Hopkins're return all the cops who investigate other copsmore surprising. Inspector Malcolm Fox has He'd been there for some time and at the beginning of the book exiled on the Procurator Fiscal is taking on Costa del Sol as a case against wanted drug smuggler for a serving policemandecade. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who The return has taken come about because he's had a few shortcuts letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and done some unorthodox swaps of information just hasn't long to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwiselive. They don't reckon that heIt's bent hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and there's sent to a degree watery grave in the boot of resentment against Foxa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0861541774|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to take on the case of a missing teenagermeet up with an old ally, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itGuy Trueman. As Maik was involved in a street brawl - he looks into it further, it becomes apparent would later maintain that he was facing a number of young women are being murdered in man armed with a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as knife - and he killed a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victimGhurka. Karl finds himself looking for Initially, he faced a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number charge of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the police do not really care very muchman. Most of Now he could be facing the victims are homeless women with death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a history of drug problems diplomatic incident and a life on the wrong side of the lawwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1521129886|title=No EscapeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=IGreg Mason've long had s just beginning to get his confidence as an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologyinvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. The mind is It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a fascinating thing, but it has far baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more spectacular effects delighted about the baby when things go wrongshe gets past the morning sickness. The same Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is true of crime thrillersnot thriving. Lucy, he says, which are a lot more entertaining when things donis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't work out too well for the in his nature. The police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller the coroner have accepted that the death was always going suicide, but Stuart's prepared to appeal pay Greg to mefind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul CharlesB0CK3MYJ56|title=Family LifeResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends It's the 1990s and children were gathered at the family farm for LiamGreg Mason's birthdaytwenty-eight years old. There was just one empty seat at He used to have a high-flying job in the table and city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the family waited for Joe – life experience that backs up this profession? On the only one of the children who wanted to farm – other hand, he has been asked to return homelook into something. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joekilled in what's body had been discovered on land by written off as a disused warehousetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. There were no injuries to the body Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Starrett Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could only assume that Joe had come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been murderedasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1838954481|title=The Gigolo Murder|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=After a break-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression and self-pity for too long, so his friend, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbul. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be married. However, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem's brother-in-law is accused of the murder of a gigolo. Our hero suspects that the brother-in-law is not guilty... but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMisper|author=Peter Lovesey |title=Skeleton HillKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the Sealed Knot refifteen-enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a sixyear-pack in old holding the shade of a fallen tree where he thought gun and pointing it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no moreat DI Kieran Shaw. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree He pulled the trigger but due to rebury – convinced that it's a relic the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the battleofficer. And so lives must go on. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the nearby racecourse – capital and it turns out that hoping for a quieter life in the bone countryside but when a missing teenager is nowhere near as old as they think, but found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the head orbit of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spotRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 1448309743|title=BaitThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murder. HoweverIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, slivers five members of an X-Ray a wealthy family are found in murdered. The only item missing from the dead woman's hand, and it home is soon discovered the Devil Stone: myth says that if the womanstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years before. Other deaths with the same modus operandi soon prove an easy conclusion given that someone is out to murder all the children two of Raymond Garveythem 's... That someone may just be Garveydiscovered's bastard son, who believes that the tumour that killed his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actionsbody. Can Thorne trace the killer's next victims before The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>pulled in to 'shadow' him.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 1529077699|title=The Dead Room|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The third in the Darby McCormick series, the Dead Room sees the head of Boston's CSU investigating a horrific home invasion which leads to a woman's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises that the case is more complicated than she could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her father's death in the line of duty wasn't all that it seemed to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husband's murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Kate Ellis |title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub and the following morning the body of one of them was found in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruelly-treated children of long-defunct Ragged School. The teenager had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there was a Victorian doll – similarly mutilated. Back in the nineteen fifties there has been four murders in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled and mutilated and left with a doll by their side. The killer had never been brought to justice. He'd be likely to be in his seventies by now – was it possible that he was still fit enough to return to his old ways?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Dawes Green|title=Ravens|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Shaw and Romeo are two friends, moving across country for a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GA, and find that one family has just had the only winning lottery ticket for a $318million jackpot. The family involved is very average - slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up for the weekly lottery and descends into a gin fug as a result, girl stuck on Facebook, boy glued to a PSP or something. There are enough gaps within the family for the pair of guys to break in between them, and have them under threat for half the winnings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Leigh Russell|title=Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel)|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=An au pair took her employer'It's young daughterall bloody peculiar, the next-door neighbourisn's son and his friend to the parkt it, but the young girl was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy and with the wilfulness of a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into the bushes, where she knew that she must not go. In there she used a stick to stir up some leaves and uncovered the body of a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia 1529427045|title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia worked for the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes for years. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells the story of how he came to infiltrate the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime families. If that doesn't sound impressive enough, then just consider that Jack Garcia was a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Brownlee |title=Burn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Inspector Daniel Jouma was hoping that calm had returned to Mombasa the problems start mounting up again. A nun has gone missing The Girl in mysterious circumstances and the local priest doesn't seem all that worried. After a meal with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of the local community falls to his death almost at their feet – but how he had got into the fort ion the first place? Jake hasn't got it any easier either. KenyaEagle's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants to sweep away the local village and build a five-star hotel in its place. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts and the FBI are in pursuit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalons|author=Joseph Teller |title=The Tenth CaseKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I am a great fan of courtroom dramas, which is one of the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much and I pretty much look on him as the master of this genre. So, when I discover a book that claims that it's ''better Life has more to offer than Grisham or your money back'' I am bound to be interested. This was the claim made by the publishers of people - prime numbers for example''The Tenth Case'' and I had to read it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all that he writes lives up to expectations. So could this book beat, or at least match, what Grisham does? Read on...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Mina1787636607|title=Still MidnightThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On It's a quiet Sunday evening scene replicated all too often in the suburbs early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Glasgow an old man is kidnapped from an unassuming houseclubs and looking for a way to get home. The kidnappers Some are incompetent – they don't seem entirely certain who it is they're after lucky and manage to get one of them fires his gunthe few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', badly injuring a teenage girlparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. As they leaveFor one young woman, taking the old man with them, they demand final stop on the bus leaves her a ransom long way short of two million poundsher home. Have they got the right house She had intended to ring someone to come and if so, why do they think that therecollect her - but her phone's so much money dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to be had there? DS Alex Morrow is certain that this is going beg the bus driver to be let her case – after all, she was promised – use his. There's no option but it goes to her arch rival, DS Grant Bannerman start walking - unsuitably clothed and she is to work under his commandin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100529</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Black 1405957174|title=GuttedA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's always a risk in taking on a new author, even in a genre that suggests you should enjoy the bookparty will not end well. The quotes on the backs of books are usually unanimous in their praise victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and can't be relied upon Nadine consciously makes no effort to be an accurate judge of call the quality between the coversambulance he so desperately needs. But when an author What we don't know is who the man is compared or why Nadine prefers to others have him die. I'd better give you already know are great writers, this does raise the expectation level a littlemore background so that you can understand what's happening. This is not always a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090528</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine 0008530025|title=Inhuman Remains|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Primavera Blackstone wants to keep a low profile. After an apparent attempt on her life by her ex-husband, she is still feeling fragile, even though Mr Blackstone is now dead. Living in Spain with her seven year old son, Tom, she thinks she is safe from prying eyes, but then her Aunt Adrienne comes to visit and all hell lets lose. Adrienne asks Prim to find her son, Prim's cousin, Frank, who has been out of contact for some time and who she suspects is in some kind of trouble. Prim eventually tracks Frank down, or rather, Frank finds her, but by then Adrienne is Murder in the hands of his enemies, the perpetrators of a massive commercial fraud. Can Prim help Frank to safety, find Adrienne and solve the mystery, all without putting her son's life in danger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348990</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFamily|author=Carol O'Connell |title=Bone by Bone|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Twenty years ago two teenage boys went into the woods outside the northern Californian town of Coventry but only one of them came home. The other was sent away by his father, Judge Hobbs and he's only just returned home because he believes that his father might be dying. During the first night there's a thump as a human jawbone – complete with teeth – lands on the front porch. Josh Hobbs is coming home – bone by bone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535298X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda Castillo|title=Sworn to SilenceCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Called out yet again It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the freezing cold body of an Ohio winter night to deal with stray cows in the roadher stepfather, Officer T.J. BanksLuke Ryder, newcomer to in the Painters Mill police department, is not a happy mangarden of their West London home. His night, however, is going to get a whole lot worse. From He had an injury on the hole in back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the wire fence when steps but the cattle escapedvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, a trail of blood leads him across the snow to an unknown woman, 'no one has been charged with his murder and it'naked as s now the day she came into thissubject of '' Infamous''world, a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and deader than Elvis''to take the investigation further. With the understatement of More to the yearpoint, Banks tells dispatch that 'they're going to do this was no'' ''accident…I think we got us a murderlive on camera, episode by episode. There''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230736408</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Gardner|title=The Neighbour|rating=5|genre=Crime |summary=Jason Jones returns from his late shift at s no dump of the newspaper to find his four-yearwhole box set -old daughter, Ree, sleeping soundly and his wife nowhere to be seenno shortage of cliffhangers. Sandy has not taken her bag, money or her mobile phone and she has not taken her car. More importantly she has not taken Ree. And Sandy would never leave ReeIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101029</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl0241996104|title=The Last DickensComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime Thrillers|summary=In BengalNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, India on a June day in 1870 two young mounted policemen are hot on the trail of dacoit suspected has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the recent daylight robbery of court, after Martin receives a train of bullock cartslife sentence. The chests taken from barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the carts were full rest of Opiumher life. Meanwhile a few thousand miles away in Boston Of course, USA, a young office boy is chased through it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the docks by a dark stranger most of it. ''HindooFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' appearance wielding a walking stick topped by a ferociously fanged idolis one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655084X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marshall Karp1529413680|title=Flipping OutA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the UK, when people used to be able to afford it, people might form a career town from the English in taking run-down houses, doing them up 1370 and selling them on for a profitBruno's there to see the show with some friends. If It's all been very lucky (or particularly weirdcarefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, as was more often the case) they might get a second career doing man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the same thing on TVscript. But over in LALuckily, where his doctor is there and the process man is known as ''flipping'', they do things much betterwhisked away in a helicopter. There, a group A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of policemensurvival but - as he's wives have formed a group with a wellsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -known mystery authorthe military has stepped in. She writes a murder book set One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in the house the others are working onCalifornia, and when both hit the markets together the profit is exemplary. Or so it is until someone starts bringing real life death to the houses flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre- for the very women in the grouparranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749079789</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=K O Dahl1529196388|title=The Last Fix|rating=4|genre=Crime |summary=Katrine Bratterud didn't really want to go to the party, but it was given by the people from her drug rehabilitation centre and she felt under an obligation as the social workers had done so much to help her. It wasn't going to be easy though – the other guests would be drinking heavily whilst she had to remain clean and to make matters worse she'd been physically attacked that day at the travel agency where she worked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571232949</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrial|author=Glen Peters |title=Mrs D'Silva's Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of CalcuttaRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime |summary=During Grant Cliveden was a picnic excursion with hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his mother Joan murder - Jimmy Knight - and other families from Calcuttait's Anglo Indian communitynot too long before Knight appears in court, ten year old Errol makes a gruesome discovery – charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the partly decomposed body best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of a young woman. The victim turns out to be Agnes, brought up by nuns Stag Court Chambers and lately married to a much older man. As witnesses, Joan it's Taylor-Cameron and Errol are required to attend the inquest at which a verdict of suicide is implied. After the inquest, Anil, a former his pupil at the school where Joan teaches, and PhilomenaAdam Green, both friends of the dead girlwho eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, confide in Joan that they believe that Agnes was murdered and ask for Joandespite all Taylor-Cameron's help in finding out who was responsiblerecommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906998019</amazonuk>
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